We are a group of educators, students, and parents seeking a democratic society. We are concerned with questions like: How can we teach against racism, nationalism and sexism in an increasingly authoritarian and undemocratic society? How can we gain enough real power to keep our ideals AND teach? Whose interests do schools serve in a society that is ever more unequal? We want to learn about equality, democracy and social justice as we simultaneously struggle to bring those into practice.

10 April 2010

Call for Papers: Policy Futures in Education

There has been much talk of the ‘post-American world’, the ‘end ofhistory’, the ‘triumph of the West’, the rise of China or amultipolar, pluralistic world dominated by continental politics, therise of the BRICs and changing global power dynamics. Each one ofthese scenarios has serious implications for education, the world’seducation systems, the architecture of educational institutions andthe roles that education as an institution plays locally, nationally,regionally and globally. This is a speculative special issue designedto provide a preliminary investigation of these historical scenarioswith a special emphasis on education—its role and trajectory.Contributors are requested to confine themselves to 5,000 words(including references) and to provide an argument that embraces one ormore of the following themes limiting themselves to a schematic andprogrammatic statement that provides only an outline of their ideas.

1. End of Hegemony: The Rise of Asia, Multipolarity and thePost-American, Post-European World

2. New Europe: Fortress Europe(?), Rejuvenation and the Question of"Europeanness"

3. China Inc: Chimerica, The Beijing Consensus, and the End of Neoliberalism

5. After History: Collapse of Soviet Russia, End of History, Triumphof Liberalism

Please signal your intent and expression of interest by sending thelead editor (mpet001@illinois.edu) a title and abstract as soon aspossible. Deadline for manuscripts is end of September, 2010. Thespecial issue will be published in late 2011 or early 2012.

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